SELECTED TITLES, MENTAL RETARDATION FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS CONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1963, AS AMENDED

TITLE I-FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED

PART B-GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED MENTAL RETARDATION CLINICAL FACILITIES

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 121.2 (a) For the purpose of assisting in the construction (and the planning for the construction) of clinical facilities providing, as nearly as practicable, a full range of inpatient and outpatient services for the mentally retarded (which, for purposes of this part, includes other neurological handicapping conditions found by the Secretary to be sufficiently related to mental retardation to warrant inclusion in this part) and facilities which will aid in demonstrating provision of specialized services for the diagnosis and treatment, education, training, or care of the mentally retarded or in the clinical training of physicians and other specialized personnel needed for research, diagnosis and treatment, education, training, or care of the mentally retarded including research incidental or related to any of the foregoing activities, there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, $7,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, $10,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and $20,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970. Except as provided in subsection (b), the sums so appropriated shall be used for project grants for construction of public and other nonprofit facilities for the mentally retarded which are associated with a college or university.

(b)(1) of the sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) for any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, an amount equal to 2 per centum thereof (or such smaller amount as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate) shall be available to the Secretary for the purpose of making grants to cover not to exceed 75 per centum of the costs of the planning of projects with respect to the construction of which applications for grants may be made under this part. Not more than $25,000 shall be granted under this subsection with respect to any project.

(2) Planning grants under this subsection shall be made by the Secretary to such applicants and upon such terms and conditions as he shall by regulations prescribe. Payment of grants under this subsection shall be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, as the Secretary may determine.

1 The heading of title I, amended by sec. 4 of Public Law 90-170.

2 Sec. 121 amended by secs. 2 (a), (b), and (d)(1) of Public Law 90–170.

3 Subsec. 121(b) added by sec. 2(c) of Public Law 90-170.

(1)

(3) Whenever, in the succeeding provisions of this part, the term "grant", "grants", or "funds" is employed, such term shall be deemed not to include any grant under this subsection or any of the funds of any such grant.

APPLICATIONS

SEC. 122. Applications for grants under this part with respect to any facility may be approved by the Secretary only if the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that

(1) the facility will be associated, to the extent prescribed in regulations of the Secretary, with a college or university hospital (including affiliated hospitals), or with such other part of a college or university as the Secretary may find appropriate in the light of the purposes of this part;

(2) the plans and specifications are in accord with regulations prescribed by the Secretary under section 133(3);

(3) title to the site for the project is or will be vested in one or more of the agencies or institutions filing the application or in a public or other nonprofit agency or institution which is to operate the facility;

(4) adequate financial support will be available for construction of the project and for its maintenance and operation when completed; and

(5) all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of work on construction of the project will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a-276a-5); and the Secretary of Labor shall have with respect to the labor standards specified in this paragraph the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 6 U.S.C. 133z-15) and section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276c).

AMOUNT OF GRANTS; PAYMENTS

SEC. 123. (a) The total of the grants with respect to any project for the construction of a facility under this part may not exceed 75 per eentum of the necessary cost of construction thereof as determined by the Secretary.

(b) Payments of grants under this part shall be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, in such installments consistent with construction progress, and on such conditions as the Secretary may determine.

RECOVERY

SEC. 124. If any facility with respect to which funds have been paid under this part shall, at any time within twenty years after the completion of construction

(1) be sold or transferred to any person, agency, or organization which is not qualified to file an application under this part,

or

(2) cease to be a public or other nonprofit facility for the mentally retarded, unless the Secretary determines, in accordance with regulations, that there is good cause for releasing

the applicant or other owner from the obligation to continue such facility as a public or other nonprofit facility for the mentally retarded,

the United States shall be entitled to recover from either the transferor or the transferee (or, in the case of a facility which has ceased to be a public or other nonprofit facility for the mentally retarded, from the owners thereof) an amount bearing the same ratio to the then value (as determined by the agreement of the parties or by action brought in the district court of the United States for the district in which the facility is situated) of so much of the facility as constituted an approved project or projects, as the amount of the Federal participation bore to the cost of the construction of such project or projects.

NONDUPLICATION OF GRANTS

SEC. 125. No grant may be made after January 1, 1964, under any provision of the Public Health Service Act, for any of the fiscal years in the period beginning July 1, 1963, and ending June 30, 1970, for construction of any facility for the mentally retarded described in this part, unless the Secretary determines that funds are not available under this part to make a grant for the construction of such facility.

PART C-GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 131. There are authorized to be appropriated, for grants for construction of public and other nonprofit facilities for the mentally retarded, $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, $12,500, 000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, $30,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970.

ALLOTMENTS TO STATES

SEC. 132. (a) For each fiscal year, the Secretary shall, in accordance with regulations, make allotments from the sums appropriated under section 131 to the several States on the basis of (1) the population, (2) the extent of the need for facilities for the mentally retarded, and (3) the financial need of the respective States; except that no such allotment to any State, other than the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam, for any fiscal year may be less than $100,000. Sums so allotted to a State for a fiscal year for construction and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to such State for such purpose for the next fiscal year (and for such year only), in addition to the sums allotted, to such State for such next fiscal year. (b) In accordance with regulations of the Secretary, any State may file with him a request that a specified portion of its allotment under this part be added to the allotment of another State under this part for the purpose of meeting a portion of the Federal share of the

1 Secs. 125 and 131 amended by secs. 2(c) and 3(a), respectively, of Public Law 90-170.